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Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer et Firouz Gahvari

vol. 55, 2020, p. 687–734

We study the role and the design of long-term care insurance programs when informal care is uncertain; with and without active actuarially-fair private insurance markets against dependency. Three types of public insurance policies are considered: (i) a topping-up scheme, (ii) an opting-out scheme,...

François Causeret, Stéphane Cezera et J.M Rousselle

2020

Ce document s’adresse à toutes les personnes qui souhaitent comprendre ce qu’est l’Économie Expérimentale et les bénéfices que l'on peut retirer de cette approche pour des travaux empiriques dont la validité et la portée peuvent être évaluées au plan scientifique. De manière pratique sont décrites...

Etienne Danchin, Sabine Noebel, Arnaud Pocheville et Guillaume Isabel

vol. 31, n° 6, décembre 2020, p. 1292–1293

Marion Desquilbet, Laurence Gaume, Manuela Grippa, Régis Céréghino, Jean-François Humbert, Jean-Marc Bonmatin, Pierre-André Cornillon, Dirk Maes, Hans Van Dyck et David Goulson

vol. 370, n° 6523, décembre 2020, p. eabd8947

Van Klink et al. (Reports, 24 April 2020, p. 417) argue for a more nuanced view of insect decline, and of human responsibility for this decline, than previously suggested. However, shortcomings in data selection and methodology raise questions about their conclusions on trends and drivers. We call...

Yu Cao, Elliott Ash et Daniel L. Chen

vol. 50, décembre 2020, p. 451–467

This paper studies the problem of automated classification of fact statements and value statements in written judicial decisions. We compare a range of methods and demonstrate that the linguistic features of sentences and paragraphs can be used to successfully classify them along this dimension....

Eliana Barrenho, Eric Gautier, Marisa Miraldo, Carol Propper et Christiern Rose

n° 15515, décembre 2020

We examine the effect of a physician network on medical innovation using novel matched patient-physician-hospital panel data. The data include every relevant physician and all patients in the English NHS for 15 years and physicians’ workplace histories for more than 20. The dynamic network arising...

Christian Gollier

vol. 22, n° 6, décembre 2020, p. 1746–1771

I calibrate a Multiple‐Risk Susceptible–Infected–Recovered model on the covid pandemic to analyze the impact of the age‐specific confinement and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing policies on incomes and mortality. Two polar strategies emerge as potentially optimal. The suppression policy...

Pierre Dubois, Rachel Griffith et Martin O'Connell

vol. 110, n° 11, novembre 2020, p. 3661–3704

Soda taxes aim to reduce excessive sugar consumption. Policymakers highlight the young, particularly from poor backgrounds, and high sugar consumers as groups whose behavior they would most like to influence. There are also concerns about the policy being regressive. We assess who are most impacted...

Jad Beyhum

vol. 24, novembre 2020, p. 688–702

This paper considers the problem of inference in a linear regression model with outliers where the number of outliers can grow with sample size but their proportion goes to 0. We apply an estimator penalizing the `1-norm of a random vector which is non-zero for outliers. We derive rates of...

Thomas S. Kraft, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Angela Garcia, Hillard Kaplan et Michael Gurven

vol. 375, n° 1811, novembre 2020

Humans have the longest post-reproductive lifespans and lowest rates of actuarial ageing among primates. Understanding the links between slow actuarial ageing and physiological change is critical for improving the human ‘healthspan’. Physiological dysregulation may be a key feature of ageing in...